New York: Time, Inc. 2001. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Magazine. 112 pages plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations (most in color). Mailing information is on the front cover. Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation. First published in August 1954. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the National Magazine Award for General Excellence twice. There were two magazines named Sports Illustrated before the current magazine began on August 16, 1954. In 1936, Stuart Scheftel created Sports Illustrated with a target market for the sportsman. He published the magazine from 1936 to 1938. He then sold the name to Dell Publications, which released Sports Illustrated in 1949 and this lasted 6 issues before closing. There was no large-base, general, weekly sports magazine with a national following on actual active events. Time patriarch Henry Luce began considering whether his company should fill that gap. Luce decided the time was right.

New York: Times Books, 1987. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. 533, Frontis maps. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Appendix. Author's Note. Sources and Notes. Bibliography. Index. , some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Inscribed by author on fep. Front board weak and has been restrengthened with glue. Raymond Bonner is the author of numerous books, an investigative reporter who also been a staff writer at the New York Times, and The New Yorker and contributed to The New York Review of Books. His latest book, Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong, was published by Knopf in February 2012. Bonner is best known as one of two journalists who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers, mostly women, children and elderly, at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Atlacatl Battalion, a unit of the Salvadoran army in December 1981.